Flute odds-n-ends
- American
Flute Guild
- a company dedicated to supporting makers at large in North America as
well as offering educational and informative materials for flutists, makers
and technicians involved in the flute trade.
- Anatomy of the flute
- Acoustics FAQ courtesy of
Joe Wolfe, the University of New South Wales, Australia
- Anatomy of a head joint by Eldred Spell
- Headjoints: Mystery vs. Mastery by Sarah
Merrow (.pdf file that
requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
-
Lars' Baroque
Flute Corner
- Fingering charts, care & feeding and more.
-
Blackledge
Woodwind Quintet
-
Charanga Sites
- Danilo
Lozano
- Charanga specialist
- Mongo
Santamaria
- first Charanga band in NYC
- Cincinnati Fluteworks
- Helpful articles on shopping for flutes, etc.
- The Complete
Guide to the Flute
- the most comprehensive source of information available today about flute
repair, construction, acoustics and maintenance from Burkart/Phelan
- The Complex Flute
- designed by Istvan Matuz, improved by Julian Elvira, and built by the
British flutemaker, Stephen Wessel. It can be played as a regular
Boehm flute, but it also enables quarter-tones, multiphonics, and
sound vocabularly of many types of non-western flutes and flute-like
instruments.
- Crescent
Duo
- Joanna Cowan White, flute; Kennen White, clarinet
- Daniel Deitch
- Historical woodwinds
- Dorus' fingering, and trills, for the conical Boehm flute
- The Estate Project
- Composers, nusicians and other artists who have died from AIDS
- Ethnic Flutes
- African flutes
- Endere - Uganda (Search for Endere)
- Kwela - South Africa
- Oja - Nigeria
- The Five-key "Charanga flute"
- Afro-Cuban wooden transverse flute
- Didgeridoo - Australian traditional instrument
- Majestic
didgeridoo sibling from Flutes family
- The Didgeridoo Page-
Italian language page with history, how to play, how to make, music
- Didgeridoo
University - from Alice Springs, Australia
- The Flute Portal
- "All types of flutes are discussed here: Native American Flute, Anasazi flute, Bansuri, Shakuhachi, Xiao, Di Zi, Quena, Irish Flute, Ney, Kaval, Shinobue, Ryuteki, Fujara, Digeridoo, Pan Pipes, Suling, Penny whistle, Recorder, Silver Flute, Ocarina and more"
- Ghanaese flutes
- Wia - Ghanese flute
-
Atenteben - ""originally a
three-holed bamboo flute, much like the 'wia', but in the 20th century, musicians added three more holes
in order to expand their range of notes"
- Global Music Archive
- a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music,
and dance of Africa and
North and South America
- A Guide to the Irish Flute
- information on Irish flutes , including an international list of flute
makers and dealers
- Neanderthal flute
- 4-hole instrument made from bone
- Ney
- The sound of longing - sound files, etc. (probably the oldest pitched instrument
known to man, is an oblique rim blown reed flute with five finger holes in
front and one thumb hole in the back.)
- Nokan flute
- bamboo flute used in Japanese Noh dramas
- Pan Pipes
- The Quena flute
- from South America
- Sao - Vietnamese traditional flute
- Vietnamese
traditional music
- (general intro)
- Vietnamese
music database
- Sound files available
- Cai-Sao
- Vietnamese flute
- Sao
truc
- Bamboo flute
- Pham Duc Thanh
- Training Videos
- Khac Chi
- Vietnamese instrumental ensemble
- Tai Hei Shakuhachi
- a total resource for Shakuhachi - the traditional Japanese bamboo flute
- Suling
- an Indonesian/Philippine flute made out of bamboo and used in the gamelan(sound
file available)
- Wikipedia article
- Flautistico.com.ar
- information and interesting articles. Spanish language - they suggest
you usee the Google translation service if you don't read Spanish
- Flook
- English/Irish traditional group that is a unique combination of flutes
underpinned by fluid guitar and hugely impressive bodhran playing
- Flute Finds
- Tchotchkes for flutists
- De Fluitstudio
- De Fluitstudio is a flute shop in Amsterdam that offers repairs, rentals
and adaptations to accommodate those with disabilities. The site includes
links for "Flute Ergonomics".
-
The
Flute and Piccolo Page
- A good place for beginners. Annoying background music, though.
- The Flute Ark
- Organized by Trevor Wye. A work in progress, but has much info on flute & flutists
- Flute Focus
- An international quarterly flute magazine published in New Zealand
-
Flutearts.com
- Flute repair folks
-
Flute Connection
- High tech site with Flute News, Site of the Week, Message boards and
much more
- Flute Dynamics
- a full-service flute repair shop
- Flute Exchange
- The Flute Market
- assists all flutists — from the novice to the professional — in buying, selling, and consigning quality,
preowned flutes, piccolos, and head joints
- Flute Talk magazine online
- for subscribers
- http://www.flutehistory.com/
- Timelines, biographies, resources and more.
- Flutes.tk
- over 250 links to flute web sites ordered in 18 categories from general
flute sites and piccolo-related sites to books, sheet music & mp3s
- flutestar.com
- The No. 1 Ladies' Flute Repair Agency, located in North Carolina
- Flute & Whistle
Sound Sample Page
- information, photos, and sound samples of various flutes and flute-like
instruments.
-
Flutes
for sale
-
Flute listserv web page
- For all you enthusiasts of the Flute listserv, this is your page!
-
Flute Lovers' Emporium
- Gifts for the distinguished flutist
- Flute performances on the web
- Michel Debost 1967 Audition for l'Orchestre de Paris -
Other historic videos of the orchestra are here.
- Marcelo Rochabrun - Devienne, Flute Concerto No. 7: Movement
1, Movement 2,
Movement 3
- The Flute Source
- Performance, pedagogy and more.
-
Flute Quotations
- E.g. A gentleman is someone who can play the flute, but doesn't
- Flutes for Sale
- Flute Center of New York
- Flutist Family Tree (a Wayback archive - links to email, etc. might not work)
- traces the lineage of transverse flute playing, from student to teacher, through the past 300 years. Beware, the .pdf
file here
is almost 1,000 pages long.
- Flutists in the movies
- Courtesy of Larry Krantz
- flutemeetup.com
- Meet up with other flutists in your town
- Flutewise
- FLUTEWISE ONLINE strives to keep the flute player amused, entertained
and informed.
-
Frederick the Great
- Interview with Philippe Gaubert's god-daughter
- Laurel Ensemble
- flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello - based in San Francisco
-
Les Joueurs
de Flûte
- A Swiss group playing the entire range of the flute family
-
Just Flutes
- "the most comprehensive selection of flute music and recordings
in Europe."
- KiwiCelt wooden flutes
- Beautiful simple system & an interesting links page
- Louis Lot
- An e-mail discussion group for flutists who play on, own, or are interested in Louis Lot (or other brands of) vintage flutes.
-
Masterflute.com
- Accompaniment CDs
- Dayton C. Miller Collection
at the Library of Congress
- Mithril
- Celtic band featuring Andra Bohnet, flute
- Musica et memoria
- French language (and some English) site that includes composer biographies and photos, history of the Prix de Rome, etc.
- www.MusiciansConnected.com
- Musicians can find accompanists; find someone to play duets, trios with,
etc; form groups (e.g., chamber ensembles, jazz bands, etc.); find teachers,
students, gigs; or just have fun and go together to concerts, or meet for
coffee and talk for hours about music.
- New Sound:
International Magazine for Music
- founded in 1993 by the Union of Yugoslav Composers' Organizations
- Pierrot Consort
- Susan Deaver, flutist.
- Piobaireachd Manuscripts
- Piobaireachd is an adjective to describe "that part of the Highland bagpipe repertory known otherwise as ceòl
mór (great music) or a single item of that repertory." (Peter Cooke, "Pibroch", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy
(Accessed 31 October 2008), http://www.grovemusic.com
- Powers
Woodwind Quintet
- comprised of music faculty members at Central Michigan University
-
The Singapore
Flute Studio
- Information on flute activities in Singapore
-
J.L. Smith & Co.
- a small flute specialty shop devoted to serving each individual
- Silverwood Quartet
- A flute quartet (flute, violin, viola, cello) featuring Andra Bohnet, flute
- Sylvan Winds
- Celebrating more than 30 years of find chamber music performances, featuring Svjetlana Kabalin on flute.
- Syrinx Flute
Quartet
- Russian flute quartet (Russian language site)
- Alexander Tansman
5th International Competition of Musical Personalities
- www.upperoctave.com
- online source features the work of music artists and artisans. If all
goes well I hope to make this "Professional Grade Flute Bag" available
on the site later in the year.
- The Van Dyke Ensemble
- Canadian ensemble that includes Grant Van Dyke, flute.
-
Rick Wilson's Historical
Flutes Page
- “Photos of, descriptions of, and information about historical European
and American flutes from the renaissance to the 20th century.” (from
the web site)
- Wirkkala
Designs
- Fine leather flute/piccolo cases
-
Woodenflute.com
- The primary focus of the woodenflute.com web site is simple system wooden
flutes with or without keys, which are often referred to as Irish flutes.
-
The Woodwind
Group
- Australia's Flute Specialist
- The worldwide distribution of the transverse flute (.pdf file)
-
www.jsengineering.net
- Gold flute pads & tools
- Yamaha Corporation of America
